People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — Eighty Million Dollars Stolen. [ARTICLE]

Eighty Million Dollars Stolen.

The court estimate of the Gould ei tale at $80,934,580.79 is as interest! as it is important in the affairs 01 country in which every .man is sup posed to earn all he gets. When a man owns a dollar he give a dollar's worth or skill or genius i. exchange for it. Unless he steals it or defrauds tti a arid of it, lie gives back for eve; collar he takes at least a doll;u worth. No one can denv tnat this is the k . cl prosperity. No one can iva: e assert that this immense accuniu. u conforms to it. The estate was accumulated by i: very simple system of'priming it and dollar marks on pi* os o. paper, and then by corrupt <••....<• . the law-making power o" the ru.. • forcing the workers of the eour.fi * surrender enough of their earuln,; give Value to the paper. That is financiering. It differs ■ stealing because thieves arc punk while the heirs of financiers dine the Prince of Wales. —New World, Jan. 11. Give the unemployed a cha . earn an honest living, and issue e- i. money to do a cash business- t'.„ Gain robbing and other crime not much lonr-n* be the only • chronicled i: ihe doily sr <■>■%.